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UN responds to crisis in Syria

It should shame us all that, three years since the adoption of the Geneva Communiqué on resolving the cataclysmic conflict in Syria, the suffering of the Syrian people continues to plumb new depths... Three years after the parties themselves, and all those with influence on them, expressed support for a plan to end that suffering, it is time to find an exit from this madness

Secretary-General Ban in statement on the third anniversary of the Geneva Communiqué on Syria, 30 June 2015